Author Archives: ateoteo

It has a been a while and unfortunately I have not gotten much better at using the Shift Key. This will definitely have to be a concerted effort.. although perhaps even if this is the only context in which I use the Shift Key it is Better Than Nothing? The subject today is on theContinue reading “support”

“UNGERS was able to engage the berlin-based institut für bau-, umwelt-und solartechnik (institute for building, environmental and solar technology) for the energy concept of the building. UNGERS approached the assignment with a particular position. in his opinion, the energy efficiency of the design should not depend on construction and building technology, but should be understood as an architectural problem, anContinue reading “eco logical”

I feel like my process of collection is so messy, I am never ready to show someone my project until the final stage of completion. But I should really approach it in terms of a series of a habits, to be ready to be accessed at each stage. I want to be more actively engagedContinue reading “CATCH MYSELF”

Fig 1. Floor plan diagram and artist rendering of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak in Egypt In which the thickness of the structure impedes the entering of light. I realise that I am not great at perceiving when I am given something. Many times I find that the people who are talking to meContinue reading “IN THE WAY”

Grade is marked down due to consistently arriving to class late, submitting work late, sleeping in class, not following formatting instructions, not following assignment of Material Phases closely. Avril produces very coherent and interesting work but needs to respect the time of her peers and the requirements of the course. This will ultimately elevate theContinue reading “the same story told 9 times over 4 years”

I realise that I can’t retain information for some reason. Was talking to a friend and I just get the sense that she can remember things that I’ve said and things that she’d told me about in the past and yet my memory of them is hazy. She was talking about how her friends areContinue reading “RETENTION”

Design as a series of investigations based on conditions for accommodation rather than fixed assertions. To think of land as more or less wet, and that there is no such thing as dry changes the relationship that we have to land – it is not a fixed condition. This changes the relationship that we haveContinue reading “OVER TIME”

Is friendliness necessitated on how open one is to being disturbed? It has a relation to open-ness for sure. Is a friendly person one who is not disturbed easily? Or do they just perceive less reactions as a disturbance, and thus the action does not elicit a negative reaction. I found that streaming has madeContinue reading “DISTURBANCE”

This is a response to Tatiana Bilbao Estudio’s lecture yesterday. Her main thesis was that unless private spaces is designed to become more public, the inequality will remain. Yet our own notions of privacy are dependent on so many factors. If the private self and the public self become one and the same? Is itContinue reading “LYING IN PRIVATE”

“Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. And I’m telling you, everything is great. The air is clean. The water is clean. Even the dirt is clean.” – Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure directed by Stephen Herek I have always been very conscious about waste despite being a massive waster of thingsContinue reading “GO TO WASTE”